Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
MAX PLANCKIt is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
More Max Planck Quotes
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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The spectral density of black body radiation; represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
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